It’s been awhile since I’ve posted here. For anyone that was interested in Blorp in the past, but it was missing that one feature you needed, chances are that feature has been added/fixed.

My favorite features

  • The best multi account support in any Lemmy or PieFed app, guaranteed!
    • Started your post on the wrong account? No problem! Switch accounts and pickup where you left off
    • Trying to moderate a post from the wrong account? Switch accounts without needing to find your way back to the post.
    • Blorp was meticulously designed from the ground up so none of the links in the app break when you switch accounts. If the content federates with your instance, you’ll see it no matter what account you open the link on!
  • Draft posts
  • Light box feed, beautiful for browsing photography communities or cute cat/dog photos
  • PieFed specific features
    • Post flairs
    • Post poll voting
    • Comment thread locking
    • More to come!
  • Lemmy V1 support
  • Edit text as raw markdown or rich text!
  • Many hours fixing little bugs and annoyances

Please give Blorp a try if you haven’t already ❤️

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  • bitofarambler@crazypeople.online
    1·
    3 days ago

    Thanks. A few appearance items became salient for me. Maybe opt-in appearance choices in general would or will take care of these issues without interfering with the simplicity I really appreciate in blorp:

    Biggest one is no auto hiding the docks, I find it distracting for them to pop in and disappear every time I scroll up or down.

    Comment/post margin width slider or color picker; it seems just on the side of unnoticeable to me so i have to discern the margin actively rather than intuitively.

    Inbox slide left/right for tab selection, although I only tried to do this because of how smooth blorp is in general, and I get it’s weird to implement because then are you refreshing the data with each slide or what.

    Color differentiation for user/comm in replies, helps differentiate the post title and user info from the reply. bolding the post title is helpful, but I still find the white text of the post title leading into the white text of a comment just noticeable rather than intuitive, whereas i find the jerboa reply info intuitively simple to pick out user/comm/post title/comment

    Personally i don’t need the “replied to your post in” reply phrase, seems like clutter in the to add the “replied” phrase in the reply tab, but I’m sure I’d get used to it.

    And that’s really it, a few appearance items that make scrolling a couple degrees less intuitive, or want to check inbox or profile but have to scroll up to get the docks back.

    I like blorp, it’s the first alternative lemmy app i’m going to keep to see how image support compares, because I know jerboa has issues playing gifs and rendering images from certain sites.

    I’ve tried every alternative I’m aware of, but they all seem overbuilt or insisted on a particular layout so I got rid of them.

    Blorp certainly seems functionality and user-focused, thanks and great work!

    • moseschrute@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      3 days ago

      Thank you! Those are all great ideas, and I need some time to think them over.

      How do you feel about animated post/comment score? Because I could add a single “reduce motion” accessibility toggle that turns off both the score animation and auto hiding nav.

      Swiping between the tabs inbox would make sense, especially from a material design perspective. But I’m already dealing with some issues where the sidebar shows up or doesn’t show up when swiping, depending on the context. I think you’re objectively right, but I’m going to sit on this one a bit longer until I can make it work really well.

      • bitofarambler@crazypeople.online
        1·
        3 days ago

        Are the vote animations the colors or the score auto update function?

        I like the color indicators for my votes, but would gladly give them up for a “reduce motion” option that kept the docks stable. Persistent docks are far more important to me in terms of app useability.

        Totally get it about inbox swiping, seems like a down the line thing that would integrate with the rest of your app design eventually, but is in no way critical even to me as someone who brought it up.

        • moseschrute@lemmy.worldOP
          3·
          3 days ago

          We can keep score colors without the animation. It would just mean any change to score (your vote or the post refreshing with new votes) would render instantly instead of animating the number.